DSA-3082-1 flac -- security update

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-3082-1 flac -- security update

Date Reported:

30 Nov 2014

Affected Packages:

flac

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 770918.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2014-8962, CVE-2014-9028.

More information:

Michele Spagnuolo, of Google Security Team, and Miroslav Lichvar, of Red Hat, discovered two issues in flac, a library handling Free Lossless Audio Codec media: by providing a specially crafted FLAC file, an attacker could execute arbitrary code.

For the stable distribution (wheezy), these problems have been fixed in version 1.2.1-6+deb7u1.

For the testing distribution (jessie) and unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in version 1.3.0-3.

We recommend that you upgrade your flac packages.